Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies...
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
I have been called romantic. Well, that can’t be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.
The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.
I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day – and the sitting down is all.
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men’s speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren’t.
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.